How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKEPORT, Calif. — A Clearlake woman died on Saturday afternoon after authorities said she was found unresponsive in the water at Highland Springs Reservoir.
The woman was identified by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office as Kimberly Kay Hill, 42.
Lakeport Fire Protection District units were dispatched to a possible drowning at Highland Springs just before 2 p.m. Sunday.
Dispatch said a female had been found face down in the water at the reservoir’s south end and she was being brought to shore as firefighters responded.
Radio traffic indicated that bystanders were giving Hill cardiopulmonary resuscitation while fire units were on the way, arriving a few minutes later.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Lauren Berlinn said firefighters transported Hill to Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
Berlinn said deputies responded to the hospital for a coroner's investigation of a possible drowning.
“The official cause of death will be determined after the autopsy,” Berlinn said.
Hill’s death was the first of two water-related fatalities over the weekend.
On Sunday afternoon, another Clearlake resident, 14-year-old Andrew Robert, who was on a group trip, went missing from the Big Beach area of Hidden Valley Lake shortly after 4 p.m. after telling others he was going to the pool.
A multiagency search followed, and his body was found by the North Shore Dive Team shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
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